senator ed markey. it is the oldest continuously operating free lecture series in america this evening sussex university continues to honor the storied legacy of the forum by preventing programs. that illuminate key issues facing our country and the world today i wish to thank joe kennedy and ed markey for participating in this important exchange on justice reform also think you to the justice reform coalition in the member organizations for your impactful advocacy around justice reform. and for inviting sussex university to participate in these important public forums. thank you to sussex university social apology. the assistance and wisdom that made this evening's program possible. to the lowell institute for the generous support that makes programs like this possible into our longtime partner is now my pleasure to introduce jennifer love williams. she serves as the cochair of the working group formally incarcerated people for black and pink national. also the creator and founder of the love project.

the incumbent, ed markey has represented the u.s. senate since 2013. before that he served in the u.s. house for nearly 37 years. the challenger, joe kennedy has served in the u.s. house since 2013. now before we get started a brief word before our format. there will be no opening or closing statements. the candidates will each get one minute to respond to the same question. after that there will be open ended periods of rebuttal and discussion. otherwise known as the fate. during which they are free to question one another and expand their focused others topics. there are just three hard and fast rules. no filibustering. no talking over each other, and always obey your moderator. thank you gentlemen, we appreciate you being here. let's begin our debates. and she'll go in alphabetical order so mr. kennedy you'll take the first question first. and senator markey will take the second one. >>> throughout this campaign keeping the same question from voters who are not already committed to one of you. what's the difference between these two? so let's try to

my next guest, massachusetts congressman joe kennedy who is looking to unseat ed markey, an incumbentcareer in 1976. we invited senator markey to join us today but his schedule would not permit it. congressman, you've criticized the incumbent, ed markey, over his handling of the shooting death of danroy "dj ""henry jr. in 2010. the senator has written a letter demanding the attorney general reopen the case and did the same back in 2014. what would you do differently in the case of dj, a case that i followed closely? >> reverend, great to be with you again. thanks for having me and thanks for talking about the henry story. dj mhenry was a college student murdered by a police officer in west chester new york, under horrific circumstances back in 2010. his parents, dan and angela, came to me in 2014 and walked me through the facts of what happened that evening and they asked for my help to seek justice for their son. and, reverend, i did and have done everything we could, from pushing it on the department of justice to local authorities to -- i invited them to be anyway guest at the stat

, live coverage of the second to last debate and ascent rate between congressman joe kennedy and ed markey. it is also streamed on the web in case you missed it in its entirety. let's go to the republican line. mark, go ahead with your comment. >> i think it's a shame for her to be brought in with joe biden knowing he picked a pretender. he should not be picking for that. you should be kicking for our country, for our people and not just the race. >> at the white house earlier today during the regular briefing, the president was asked about the selection of senator kamala harris. this was his response. person that has told many, many stories that weren't true. she is big into raising taxes. she wants to slash funds for the military at a level nobody can even believe. she is against fracking. she is against petroleum products. how do you do that and go into pennsylvania, ohio, oklahoma or the great state of texas? she is against fracking? do the question first. >> your going to lose your doctors, lose your plan. she wants to take your health care plans away from 180 million americans. ameri

ez.wb welcome back to our debate between the incumbent senator ed markey and congressman joe kennedy. have been remiss year. some of these questions were submitted by voters via social media and we appreciate the input, including this one. senator markey, you will go first on this. in the past, you have both boasted of your ability to perform productive working relationships with republican colleagues. but in this era of harsh partisanship, former vice president eitan has drawn fire from within the democratic party if presidentg trump is defeated, democrats will have an epiphany and return to work in a bipartisan matter, a move he says he will welcome. his critics call that naive and out of touch with reality. who is right, biden or his critics? sen. markey: we hope that when donald trump is fumigated out of the white house in november and republicans lose control of the senate and are in the minority that they will see the light. cooperateill begin to on a bipartisan basis. that is what we hope. but if they don't, there is a big agenda next year on health care. on the economy. on edu

massachusetts primary is september 1. ♪ ♪ welcome back to our debate between the incumbent senator ed markeyhe challenger joe kennedy. i've been remiss here. some of these questions you're hearing were submitted by voters via social media. we appreciate all the input and include this on, senator markey will go first on this. in the past, he both boasted of your ability for productive working relationships with your republican colleagues but in this era of cars partisanship. he's drawn fire from within the democratic party for suggesting that if president trump is defeated, republicans in congress will have quote an epiphany and return to the bygone days of working with democrats in a bipartisan manner. i move he says he will than awad. his critics call that naÏve and out of touch with reality. who is right? biden or his critics? one minute please. >> we hope when donald trump as he fumigated out of the white house in november and republicans lose control the senate and they are in the minority that they will see the lights. and they will begin to cooperate on the bipartisan basis. that is wh

. >> ed markey is shown as the favorite threatening to make the four-term congressman to be the first kennedy to lose a race in massachusetts. democratic incokucumbents have beenoutbeen ousted. >> i am the youngest guy in this race. >> reporter: it's been markey with the mantle of the insurgence toeting support of te green new deal and endorsement of alexandria ococasio-cortez. >> that's the green new deal i introduced with alexandria ocho cost owe co -- ocasio-cortez. i stood next to bernie sanders when he introduced it. >> reporter: yet kennedy the backing of the party's establishment leader speaker nancy pelosi. kennedy allies are frustrated markey has not been held to account for his full record over four decades like his backing of the iraq war in 2002. the nafta deal in 1993 and racial issues like school desegregation dating back to the 1970s. >> if they are willing to overlook hurdles, that's up to a progressive movement. an awful lot of folks in massachusetts have a different view of that record and what that means to our communities. >> reporter: after going door to door and

. >> so an endorsement from house speaker nancy pelosi, ed markey is preferred by half the others. why did you think is a good time to run now against senator markey? >> the fact that is we need more out of our senator. this is a critical time of our country and i thought that ten months ago before crisis of covid-19 or the economic decisions that came with it. when there are over 500,000 people gone homeless and 37 million people gone hungry. and the fact that covid-19 has made so many dekecent equities even worse. she's rig driving the change that we need not just in the community but around the country and that has not been what senator markey has done. he's not out campaigning the country. as the speaker indicated, driving dozens of districts across the nation, helping to flip the house that we can hold and holding the administration accountsab accountab accountable, senator markey gone nowhere. it is a completely different responsibility to go out there and fight for the change we need. i have and i don't think senator markey has. we need a lot more. >> hopefully we have a cha

. >> i'm ed markey.ght for the principles i believe in. the boss may tell me where to sit. nobody tells me where to stand. >> we've got to make sure president biden signs a new deal. we can't wait. >> we've got to have folks in the united states senate who are willing to stand up for leg people. we need ed markey in the senate. >> we asked what we can do for our country. we went out and we did it. >> with all due respect, it's time to start asking what your country can do for you. >> that last nine of course invoking the 35th president's words. it did not sit well at all with some including speaker nancy pelosi who stunned many. we will watch what happens live september 1st election. that does it for us tonight. joshua johnson is going to pick up coverage after a quick break. for now, from me, good night from washington. r now, from me,t from washington. they're going to be paying for this for a long time. they will, but with accident forgiveness allstate won't raise your rates just because of an acciden

rome burns, senate republicans like ted cruz of texas took to twitter to mock democratic senator ed markeyho vowed to increase federal assistance to the unemployed. cruz lost texans to the coronavirus, why be so cheap, give everyone $1 million a day forever and three soy lattes a day and foot massage, we have a magic money tree, use it. i'm joined by senator brown, give you opportunity to respond to ted cruz, seemed a callous and ugly tweet when you saw the suffering people areificatio fa. >> it's an ugly tweet and ugly time, considering what speaker pelosi passed bill in may, we thought we would be working on this and getting $600 a week and taking care of emergency rental assistance, helping to open schools safely and get billions to the schools to do what they needed to do to reconfigure the classrooms and busses, and mcconnell felt no such emergency. offers finally anemic bill, the week that unemployment is expiring, that the moratorium on evictions is expiring, same week that literally dozens of moratoriums on water and electric shutoffs are about to expire in the middle of a pandemic

does have support in the left part of the democratic caucus, bernie sanders, but also support of ed markey who is up facing re-election, facing a difficult primary from his left in massachusetts. he's a co-sponsor of this bill and kirsten gillibrand of new york. what this bill would do is impose a 60% tax on billionaires who have reported increasing their wealth since mid-march up until august. it would affect 467 billionaires and according to sanders office, would raise $421 billion by posing that 60% tax on their newly accumulated wealth. you mentioned jeff bezos, look at bill gates, he added $16 billion in wealth from mid-march, up until today, warren buffett, that billionaire investor also increasing from $68 billion to $80 billion and additional $12 billion that would be taxed as well. this idea that the senator introduced last week has not been part of any of these discussions that have been going on, on capitol hill, to try to deal with the economic recovery here, stalled discussions between the democrats and the white house. but if joe biden becomes president, democrats take the se

on thursday, senators s bernie sanders, ed markey and kirsten gillibrand introduced the make billionaires pay act, a 60% tax on over $700 billion dollars in windfall profits made during the pandemic by the top 0.001% of americans. senator sanders wrote, "we can continue to allow the very rich to get much richer while everyone else gets poorer and poorer or we can tax the , winnings a handful of billionaires made during the pandemic to improve the health and well-being of tetens of millions of f americans." the united nations is warning of a humanitarian catastrophe in lebanon following tuesday's massive explosion at the porortf beirut that killed at least 157 people, injured 5,000 others, and left 300,000 homeless. french preresident emmananuel mn vivisited beirutut on thursday d said france was ready to aid lebanon, but only if officials enact reforms cracking down on widespread corruption. on thuhursday, lebanese police fired tear gas at antigovernment protesters gathered outside the parliament. there are plans for a massive mobilization on saturday, calling for the ouster and arrest of

candidates, the incumbent ed markey has represented massachusetts since 2013.

and if you don't believe me, just watch this ad from massachusetts senator ed markey featuring some ofs you will ever see. >> the postal service handles in one day more business than fedex and ups do in a year it's an integral part of the economy of this country and the security of this country and right now, it's an important part of democracy. we're in every town, deliver to every house every day, the infrastructures, it can't be matched. if they privatize this institution, we'll be at the mercy of corporations, and we all know they have no mercy. >> seth: so great that masks can keep out coronavirus but are completely impervious to a boston accent. no one was watching that thinking, "where are those gentleman from?" hey, we're shooting a commercial here can somebody quiet the [ bleep ] seagulls down? how can you not love those guys? it's like if the post office was directed by ben affleck. "we service more homes in a day than fedex, ups, and we are sorry to say, even your mother." post office has been woven into the fabric of america since before the founding. it's as old as the rep

this is senator ed markey of massachusetts.re raising the alarm that ballots and our democracy are at risk with the changes at the postal service. the postmaster general must answer immediately. andannot allow donald trump his loyalists to hijack the usps for political gain. from amy klobuchar, saying changes at the u.s. postal service have led to pileups and delays of mail. the american people relying on the postal service not only to cast ballots but for medications and paychecks. postals must support the service in its next relief back end. saying,from joe biden we can't let donald trump destroy the u.s. postal service. taking your calls for another 15 minutes on this tuesday morning, asking about your level of trust in the postal service this election cycle. -- phonees in line split up regionally. eastern and central (202) 748-8000. (202) 748-8001 if you are in the mountain then pacific time zones. for former and current postal workers (202) 748-8002. today is another primary day in several states and we will have a wrapup

senator cruz was met by this tweet from senator ed markey, democrat of massachusetts. it's not a goddamn joke, ted. millions of families are facing hunger, the threat of eviction and the loss of a job every day. hears get real. senator ted cruz is right and senator markey is wrong. there is a magical money tree and you can eat its fruit and you can sit in its shade if you are rich or hold stock or are a major american corporation. if you're lost your job or about to lose your job, there's no money tree for you and that in a nutshell is why we don't have a deal now because republicans don't want to share the fruits of the money tree with the americans who are suffering. this is why the federal eviction moratorium lapsed and why the extra $600 unemployment benefits expired over the weekend. the president kindly interrupted his long weekend at his new jersey golf club and signed four executive orders on coronavirus relief. those orders are insufficient. they're really just part of a p.r. stunt. included in those orders is a plan to suspend payroll taxes, which would actua

two democrats in massachusetts fighting like hell, spending money in a democratic primary against ed markeyi served with him. ed has been a democrat for a long time. and i like -- i like joe kennedy. i love the family. but for the life of me, i don't understand why he jumped into that race in the anyone of trump. it seems like a waste of resources. well, joe that question is being asked right now, as we proceed to an early primary here, september 1st and mail-in voting begins in a very few days. that question, why is he running, has not been answered, i don't think, by joe kennedy to the point where voters accept the answer, they wonder the same thing you just raised, why are you running? he hasn't had a tangible, really pointed answer to that question. ed markey has been in the house and senate now for 40 years. he is also, you know, right out front in terms of the new green deal, a big environmental guy, always has been and his secret weapon is alexandria ocasio-cortez, who has cut a tv ad for him already, a very powerful ad in which he takes on his supposedly big liability, his age, in h

senator ed markey or joe kennedy? caller: i'm going to go with kennedy all the way. host: why?caller: just because of there track record. and because of the family history. they are very active in the african-american community. they are sympathetic toward african-americans. and markey, i look at him as a regular politician. and i am definitely leaning toward kennedy. host: thank you for calling in this evening. let's hear from randy in omaha, republican line. randy, your fellow republican john kasich set americas at a crossroads at the democratic convention. what is your reaction to that? caller: yes, actually i do believe america is not a crossroads. these crossroads are going to lead in to a civil war, either direction you go. that is my belief. now, i hear a lot of these candidates that they were talking today, saying, about the defunded and causing veterans not to get there medications. i'm a 17 year veteran of the united states military. medsds come to me-- my come to me by ups, not usps, so what they're saying is bs. host: randy, you talked about, you talked about the co

senate primary race you are backing congressman joe kennedy over your long-time colleague senator ed markeyes are accusing you of hypocrisy, they say the democratic leadership has opposed primary challenges to house incumbents but now you're backing a primary challenge to a senate incumbent. aoc tweeted no one gets to complain about primary challenges again. how do you respond to the charge this is a double-standard. >> thank you for giving me the opportunity to clarify that because that isn't a fact. people can support whoever they want and our members do, but i support my members and i have consistently, proudly supported my members in their reelections and that's been consistent against any other people who are running against them. they can run against them and members can support them, but i support my members and i am so proud of joe kennedy. thank you for asking me about t he really was instrumental in helping us win the house in 2018 which has made a significant difference in how we point out the -- what the administration is doing. so he's been a valiant member. he's brilliant, he'

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obviously we've been mostly focused on the president so far tonight but i have to ask you about ed markey facing off in a primary coming up tuesday. the house speaker nancy pelosi waded into the race endorsing. how does this play out. you're supporting markey? >> yeah, i'm supporting markey. it's unfortunate it's gotten nasty. we're not used to that kind of politics in massachusetts. both have good records. senator markey has a very distinguished record for 40 plus years in the congress and united states senate and a big partner with me in the city of boston. >> do you think senator markey will pull it out on tuesday? >> it's hard to say. the polls all say that. in this year's election with mail-in ballots and with the coronavirus, it's very complicated to see exactly what would happen. normally you'd have a ground game, knocking on doors and pulling people out to vote. i'm curious to see how next tuesday works in massachusetts and post becauboston because i o push to the next race but it's a dry run for the presidency pulling votes out across the country. >> it's a very important point.

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